Originally Posted by
eightfish
Ahhh... the dinner was good, but the wines were excellent! Sorry I missed your post earlier otherwise would have said hi at the dinner!
What I heard was that they need to invite 100 DM and they sent word to the Marco Polo office in HKG who randomly picked the members. They invited 100, and about 50+ people showed up.
I thought it was pretty well done - very classy. Do they do these diners and get togethers elsewhere around the world? I was also told Taiwan has the second or 3rd greatest number of DM members in the world (I can't remember which) behind HKG and I want to say the USA (? is that correct)...
It's a great tool for building loyalty, and did I mention how amazing the wines were??
Well, I still hope CX would spice up their mileage calculations rather than hosting a few dinners. GO and DM should get bonus miles, that would gain a lot more loyalty than just providing dinner, and evidently 40+ people didn't go kind of proves that point.